SYSTEMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF SHAPE GRAMMARS FOR THE FORM DESIGN OF THE PRODUCTS

Abstract

Shape grammars have been developed from the analyses and creative designs of architecture forms to generate the product forms as a computational method recently. All the shape grammars presented in the literature lack explanation about how they were constructed. So trying to create the shape grammar for product becomes very challenging, since it is difficult to induce rules from thousands of models of a particular product without any guidance. The objective of the paper is to propose a systematic approach which enables us to construct the shape grammar for the form of a particular type of a product. A scooter case study illustrates the proposed process for constructing the shape grammar of products.